INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE MEMORIAL TRUST www.international-brigades.org.uk

Annual General Meeting: Cardiff, 14 October 2017 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORT

1/ INTRODUCTION Scotland Secretary; Mary Greening: Membership We are pleased to report another active and Secretary and Wales Secretary; Christopher Hall: productive year for the IBMT since our 2016 Annual Merchandise Officer; Jim Jump: Editor; Marshall General Meeting in Dublin. As well as our regular Mateer: Film Coordinator; Manus O’Riordan: Ireland annual events – the Len Crome Memorial Conference Secretary; Marlene Sidaway: Exhibition Coordinator; in Manchester and our commemoration at the Richard Thorpe: Education Officer and Facebook International Brigade memorial in London, both of Coordinator. Pauline Fraser is responsible for dealing which were well attended and received positive with general email enquiries sent to the IBMT. feedback – other highlights of the past 12 months have been the play ‘Dare Devil Rides to Jarama’ and 3/ IBMT PREMISES AND STAFF the unveiling of the memorial to the Oxfordshire The IBMT continues to rent an office and storage volunteers. space at its registered office at Marx House, 37a The past year also saw the death of Stan Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU. We use the Hilton, almost certainly the last surviving services of freelance helpers at the office, who are International Brigade volunteer from Britain and paid for the equivalent of seven days per month, to Ireland. Stan’s death on 21 October 2016 at the age of ease the administrative workload on the Trust, to 98 marked the end of an important chapter in the manage the production of the IBMT eNewsletter and development of the IBMT, which was initially to undertake other project work. established in 2001 by surviving veterans and a group The Executive Committee is currently of family members, friends and historians of the examining the possibility of employing an IBMT . The Trust has evolved National Coordinator & Fundraiser to take on the considerably since then. It is no coincidence therefore management of the Trust’s activities and to improve that the Executive Committee has over the past year our fundraising and income streams. A four-year been looking to the future, in particular the Trust’s business plan is being drawn up to fund the finances, constitutional arrangements and staffing. appointment. Our aim is to ensure the long-term viability and efficacy of the IBMT in order to help keep alive the 4/ MEMBERSHIP story of the volunteers, who must continue to be a Total membership on 31 December 2016, broken beacon to all those on the side of international down by region, was as follows (figures on 31 August solidarity, social justice and anti-fascism. 2017 in brackets): – London & South East 341 (310) 2/ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE – Scotland 131 (108) The Executive Committee has met three times over – North West 125 (105) the past 12 months, on 5 November 2016 and on 4 – Midlands 104 (83) February and 3 June 2017. Officers, as elected at the – South West 62 (59) 2016 AGM, are Richard Baxell (Chair), Jim Jump – Yorkshire & North East 61 (58) (Secretary) and Manuel Moreno (Treasurer); in – Wales 42 (38) addition, Marlene Sidaway continues to serve as – Ireland 38 (32) President. The other Executive Committee members – Rest of the world 48 (38) are Mike Arnott, Pauline Fraser, Mary Greening, Total: 952 (831) Christopher Hall, Charles Jepson, Nina Londragan, Membership figures, broken down by membership Dolores Long, Marshall Mateer, Manus O’Riordan, category, on 31 August 2017 were (last year’s Danny Payne and Richard Thorpe. equivalent figures in brackets): As well as the responsibilities of the elected – Individual 338 (365) officers, the Executive Committee has assigned the – Household 259 (274) following duties to EC members: Mike Arnott: – Unwaged 203 (208) – Honorary 12 (13) substantially to an average of 365 daily (245 in – Affiliated 19 (25) 2015/16), including more than 53,000 first-time visits – Lapsed 224 (180) over the course of the whole year. Total (excluding lapsed): 831 (885) The number of IBMT Twitter followers is also Members pay their subs using a variety of methods increasing and now stands at nearly 2,500. Our such as cash, cheque, direct debit, PayPal and bank tweets are also viewable on our website. transfer. Reminders have been sent out to those who The Facebook site is being used to promote have not paid for this year. Those who do not pay awareness of International Brigade memorials, as promptly pose a considerable problem for the IBMT well as to pass on details of events and other items of as it is costly and time-consuming to send out interest. At least one item has been scheduled to reminders. appear every day – usually with several others being posted as they appear elsewhere on social media. 5/ BALLOTING During the anniversary of Jarama ‘live’ reports of The Executive Committee has continued to review events 80 years ago were posted. The membership of procedures for electing the IBMT Executive the Facebook group has gradually grown and now Committee. stands at 4,723. There is general agreement to move towards a In an effort to reach a younger audience the ‘single constituency’ election system, in which IBMT has opened an Instagram account (ibmt1936), members would elect an Executive Committee and and the aim is to schedule at least one post a day. the Trust’s officers (Chair, Secretary and Treasurer) The theme of ‘Children and the Spanish Civil would be elected by the Executive Committee itself War’ launched a new IBMT online service using rather than in separate elections at an Annual General Pinterest. See over 200 images on the subject at: Meeting. Such a system would be more affordable if www.pinterest.co.uk/IBMT_SCW, along with other balloting were to be conducted online or by post. In themes such as the Battle of the Ebro, Catalonia addition a single constituency system would allow 1932-39 and the . A guide to using the Trust to introduce phased elections to the Pinterest has been compiled by the IBMT Film Executive Committee, whereby three or four members Coordinator and is available on request. would be elected at each year’s AGM to serve a term of office of three years or more. 9/ FILMS & PHOTOGRAPHY The estimated costs of individual balloting The IBMT is creating a series of videos showing systems to elect all members of the Executive aspects of our history and work. The first two titles Committee would be £3,000 for a postal ballot, are in preparation: £2,700 for a combined postal/online ballot, and – The national memorial: how it was commissioned, £1,900 for an online ballot. Given the Trust’s financial created, unveiled, maintained and is used. constraints, the Executive Committee is not currently – The IBMT database of volunteers: how it has been pursuing any of these options. assembled over the years, the work of Jim Carmody and how it is being developed for online publication, 6/ IBMT MAGAZINE including the ‘Moscow Archive’ and the International Three issues of the IBMT Magazine have been Brigade Association archive at the Marx Memorial published since our last AGM. The magazine remains Library. a key means of communication to members and the Future topics will include the British Battalion general public. The Editor wishes to thank all those banners and International Brigade memorials in who over the past 12 months have submitted articles, Britain and Ireland. The video ‘IBMT Montage 2017’ images and letters for publication. (https://youtu.be/DSn0DntjdKE) was shown at the Len Crome Memorial Conference in Manchester. 7/ IBMT eNEWSLETTER Background notes prepared by the IBMT Film Since our last AGM, 23 issues of the fortnightly IBMT Coordinator are available on films and the eNewsletter have been produced (with another issue International Brigade and and on due immediately before this AGM) and emailed to David Leach’s film ‘Voices from a Mountain’. In IBMT members. preparation are notes on ‘Land and Freedom’, ‘Mourir à Madrid’ and comics and the International Brigade 8/ IBMT ONLINE PRESENCE and Spanish Civil War. Our online presence continues to be an essential part Images and videos from the 2017 Len Crome of the IBMT’s communications strategy. There are Memorial Conference, the annual commemoration, plans to redesign and expand the website, which the Oxford memorial unveiling, the Basque children’s should be implemented year. Over the past 12 months plaque unveiling in Hull and other events can be seen page views of the IBMT website have increased at www.flickr.com/photos/ibmt and www.youtube.com/user/IBMTnews. host commemorations at Jarama in February, Brunete in July and Madrid in November. A group of more than 10/ RESEARCH AND ARCHIVES 60 IBMT supporters attended AABI’s weekend of Work is continuing on an open-access online events to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of biographical database of all the volunteers from Jarama on 17/18 February earlier this year. On the Britain and Ireland, which we hope will go online weekend before a group of more than 100 trade when the newly redesigned IBMT website becomes unionists and others attended a commemorative active (see item above). weekend organised independently by some IBMT The IBMT’s cache of archival material has members in the North-West. been donated to the Marx Memorial Library. There is a formal donor’s agreement between our two 15/ MEMORIALS organisations, with our donations now called the Battle of the Ebro (London): Shadow Foreign IBMT Archive. This follows the Library’s successful Secretary Emily Thornberry MP unveiled the original application for funding from the National Archives to Battle of the Ebro plaque at its new location in the catalogue its extensive International Brigade and memorial garden of London’s Marx Memorial Library Spanish Civil War archive, which is due to be on 30 October 2016. Cut into three pieces by Spanish completed by next spring. neo-fascists after it was first unveiled on the Ebro battlefield in 2005, the plaque was soon replaced, but 11/ JUBILEE GARDENS COMMEMORATION the original was brought to Britain by the IBMT. It The IBMT’s annual commemoration in London’s names the 90 dead of the British Battalion at the Ebro Jubilee Gardens on 1 July was once again very well in July to September 1938. attended. The guest speakers and performers were Bolton: A plaque remembering local International Na-mara, Tosh McDonald, Paul Preston, Herminio Brigader James Alwyn was unveiled outside Bolton Martínez, Maddy Carty and Len McCluskey. Socialist Club on 16 September by María-Luísa Toole, Afterwards there was an informal gathering at the a Basque refugee living in Bolton. The event was nearby Horse & Stables pub. accompanied by exhibitions, talks and music from Joe Solo. 12/ LEN CROME MEMORIAL CONFERENCE Hull: Work has begun with a sculptor to create a 2- The 2017 Len Crome Memorial Conference was held at metre-high carved stone memorial in the Queen’s the Manchester Conference Centre on 18 March with Garden area of central Hull. It is hoped to arrange the the title ‘Liberty’s Volunteers: the timeless legacy of unveiling to coincide with the 2018 AGM. the International Brigades’. The speakers were Irvine: Irvine & North Ayrshire Trades Union Council journalist and author Giles Tremlett and historian and has successfully held an appeal to refurbish the local IBMT Chair Richard Baxell. David Leach’s film ‘Voices gravestone of John Smith, a Brigader killed on the from a Mountain’ was also screened. There was a Ebro in 1938. large audience, and it was generally agreed to have Larkhall: The family (in Australia) of ILP member Bob been a highly successful event. Smillie, who died in a Republican jail in 1937, are Next year’s Len Crome Memorial Conference supporting plans for a memorial to him. Frank Casey will be held in Bristol’s Colston Hall on 24 March, with has made a relief portrait memorial plaque, along the theme of Aid Spain. The main speakers will be with one for , for which a site is being historians Tom Buchanan and Emily Mason. An sought in Spain. appropriate film will also be shown. Liverpool: A plaque was unveiled in Liverpool Town Hall on 19 December 2016 to mark the 80th 13/ USE OF THE IBMT NAME anniversary of the Spanish Civil War and to pay During the course of the past year the Executive tribute to those people from Merseyside who had Committee has reaffirmed that, because of the Trust’s supported the anti-fascist cause in the war. statutory responsibilities and potential liabilities, no Newcastle upon Tyne: With support from the IBMT group, unless expressly authorised by the Executive and Newcastle City Council, an information board Committee, can call itself an ‘IBMT committee’ or give listing the 35 men from the North-East killed in Spain itself any other designation that includes the full has been installed next to the Spanish Civil War name or acronym of the IBMT. A number of memorial in front of the city’s civic centre. It was individuals have accordingly been asked to desist unveiled on 9 November 2016. from using the IBMT name. Madge Addy (Manchester): Money has been raised for a plaque on the house where nurse Madge Addy 14/ COMMEMORATIONS IN SPAIN lived, with agreement secured from Manchester City Our Madrid-based sister organisation, the AABI Council and the building’s owners. Pressure is being International Brigades friendship group, continues to exerted to ensure the unveiling happens in 2017 as it is the 80th anniversary of Madge’s journey to Spain. volunteers in the International Brigades, continues to Merchant seafarers (Glasgow): Planning permission be displayed at major IBMT events. is still awaited for a memorial sculpture by Frank Casey near to the Jamaica Street Bridge over the 18/ DURHAM MINERS GALA & TOLPUDDLE Clyde. The initiative is being supported by RMT and MARTYRS’ FESTIVAL Glasgow City Council, which has made the site The IBMT had a stall this year at the Durham Miners available. An appeal for additional funding has Gala on 8 July and at the Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival meanwhile been launched by RMT Glasgow Shipping on 14-16 July. We also took part with our banner in Branch. both parades. Newhaven Fort: A replacement plaque has been installed on the International Brigade Memorial 19/ ‘DARE DEVIL RIDES TO JARAMA’ Bench at Newhaven Fort in Sussex. The previous The IBMT-sponsored play ‘Dare Devil Rides to plaque had become badly weathered. Jarama’, written by Neil Gore, ended its eight-month Oxford: The memorial to the 31 Oxfordshire tour of venues in Britain and Ireland in May 2017, International Brigade volunteers was unveiled in though there were two further performances at the Oxford on 10 June 2017 at the bottom of Headington Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival in July. Produced by Hill and adjacent to South Parks. The IBMT memorial, Townsend Productions, the drama is centred on the in the form of a sculpture by Charlie Carter, names the stories of speedway motorcyclist Clem Beckett and six volunteers killed in Spain. writer , both killed at Jarama in Paisley: A memorial to the International Brigade February 1937. ‘Dare Devil Rides to Jarama’ won volunteers from Renfrewshire was unveiled on 13 May praise from audiences and critics alike, with the 2017 outside the Renfrewshire Council offices in Morning Star reviewer declaring it was ‘quite simply Paisley. It was raised with help from Paisley & District the best political theatre produced for a long, long Trades Union Council, Renfrewshire Council and the time’. IBMT. Southwark: A plaque naming the International 20/ MERCHANDISE Brigade volunteers with links to the south London The last 12 months have continued to see the sales of borough of Southwark was unveiled on 25 October IBMT merchandise sold at ever more events – 2016 at the John Harvard Library. The plaque had Tolpuddle, Durham, Hull, Oxford etc. Sales online go been in storage in Southwark’s old town hall, having to many countries, including Australia, Sweden, been unveiled there originally in 1986. Switzerland, the US etc. We now have two bases for Wigan: A campaign is being led by local IBMT our merchandise: one in London at our office in the members and Wigan Trades Union Council to install a Marx Memorial Library, which we use to supply plaque in Wigan’s Believe Square to the 12 volunteers merchandise for major events like the annual from Wigan, including three who were killed Spain. commemoration at the South Bank. The second base Meanwhile, the past year has also seen is in Manchester, from where online orders are sent plaques unveiled at sites in Lancing and Hull where out and which supports events in the north of there were homes for refugee Basque children during England. the Spanish Civil War. Efforts are continuing for new This year’s stock range has not been increased memorials to International Brigaders in Rotherham, greatly, though new products now available include: a Stockton-on-Tees, Leicester and El Perelló (Catalonia) flag of the 15th International Brigade, paperback and for a plaque in Bayswater, London, for exiled copies of Richard Baxell’s book ‘Unlikely Warriors’, a Spanish Republican Prime Minister Juan Negrín on the series of Spanish Civil War postcards and a postcard site of the Hogar Español. of the British Battalion banner. The following have also been re-stocked 16/ ‘ANTIFASCISTAS’ following high sales: red British Battalion t-shirt, grey The Spanish version of the IBMT’s flagship British Battalion t-shirt, 15th International Brigade t- publication, ‘Antifascistas: British and Irish shirt, clenched fist sculpture, IBMT badge, Connolly Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War’, was jointly Column badge and No Pasaran jute bag. More copies published at the end of 2016 by Piedra de Rayo of of the Trust’s flagship book ‘Antifascistas’ were also Logroño and Pamiela of Pamplona. It is called ‘Help purchased as we had sold out of our previous stock. Spain: Voluntarios británicos e irlandeses en la In a new move, slow-selling goods and end of Guerra Civil Española’. the line stock have been sold at a discount. In addition, new merchandise has been promoted 17/ ANTIFASCISTAS EXHIBITION through the ‘New Products/Special Offers’ section of The IBMT’s Antifascistas exhibition, consisting of 15 the merchandise pages. Both initiatives have been panels telling the story of the British and Irish successful. The Merchandise Officer would like to thank – FIBI held a Charlie Donnelly Weekend School in all those activists who have staffed stalls at a myriad Coalisland and Dungannon, Co Tyrone, on 24/25 of events throughout the country, selling both our February, at which the IBMT Ireland Secretary spoke ideals and our merchandise, which raises important and sang settings of poems by and inspired by Charlie funds for the Trust and also helps to visually promote Donnelly, and laid flowers on behalf of the IBMT at the our message. memorial to Donnelly adjacent to his Cullybackey birthplace. 21/ BRIGADISTA ALE – Premiere of the Limerick IBMT film documentary, Early in 2016 we helped launch, in partnership with ‘The Limerick Brigadistas – From the Shannon to the Hope Not Hate, Brigadista Ale, which has been Ebro’, on 7 April. brewed by Blackhill Brewery in County Durham and – On 21-23 April, the Dublin Gernika 80 Committee sold in casks and bottles. This year we are launching held a weekend of commemorations for the victims of cans of Brigadista Special Edition Golden Ale, again in the Luftwaffe bombing, involving lectures, a booklet partnership with Hope Not Hate. It will be brewed and publication, and the planting of a commemorative sold by Three Sods, an award-winning brewery in oak sapling from Gernika at the Angels Plot in London’s East End, with proceeds going to the IBMT. Dublin's Glasnevin Cemetery. A message from the IBMT was read out. 22/ EDUCATION – On 25 April FIBI organised a day-long International The lesson plans and resources on the Times Brigades commemoration in Dundalk, Co Louth, Educational Supplement continue to be used – as of where a moving account was given, by his nephew, of 10 August 2017 the total number of downloads the life an death of local International Brigader Andy numbered 19,240. The most popular lesson package Delaney, killed during the Aragon retreats, while the remains ‘Franco – The Impact of his rule’, followed by centenary of Cork International Brigader Micheál ‘Taking Sides: The War begins’. It is hoped to update O’Riordan was marked by an address from his son, and put these resources on to the new IBMT website Manus O’Riordan, the IBMT Ireland Secretary. so they can be obtained directly from us. – On 27 April, the IBCC hosted a lecture by Daniel Kowalski, of Queen's University Belfast, on ‘History 23/ THE IBMT AND YOUNG PEOPLE and Memory of the International Brigades’. In response to the issue of the IBMT and young – On 30 June 30 to 2 July, the George Brown Memorial people being raised from the floor at last year’s AGM, Committee held its annual weekend of the Executive Committee has decided to adopt a commemorations in Inistioge, Co Kilkenny, including a three-year development strategy. A discussion point lecture by Tom Hogan on the Waterford International will be set up at the Cardiff AGM to collect views and Brigaders. opinions on the issue. – On 4 August 4 the IBCC hosted a lecture in Belfast by Brian Hanley on ‘The Radical Thirties’, and an 24/ IRELAND evening of commemorative songs with Joe Solo and The video by the IBMT Flm Coordinator of the address other artistes. by the President of Ireland to the 2016 AGM of the – To mark the centenary of Micheál O'Riordan (1917- IBMT was posted on the Presidential website itself, 2006), the Spirit of Mother Jones Festival in Cork while both this and the IBMT Ireland Secretary’s reply devoted the whole of 4 August to a series of to the President were posted – International Brigade commemorative events, see www.albavolunteer.org/2016/11/reply-to-the- including a lecture by the IBMT Ireland Secretary and president-of-ireland – on the website of the Abraham a celebration outside O’Riordan's Lincoln Brigade Archives. birthplace. See https://motherjonescork.com/2017/ The following events took place in 2017 to 08/09/spirit-of-mother-jones-festival-surpasses- date: previous-events and https://motherjonescork.com/t – AGM of the IBCC (International Brigade ag/spanish-civil-war for more details. Commemoration Committee) in Belfast on 12 – On 19 August 19 held its annual commemoration of February, including a commemoration of the 80th Co Louth International Brigaders at the memorial on anniversary of the . Slieve Foye, Omeath. – FIBI (Friends of the International Brigades in – 9 September saw the annual commemoration of Ireland) organised the participation of artistes Andy International Brigader Peter Daly at his memorial in Irvine and Calum Baird in concerts at Rivas , Co Wexford. Vaciamadrid for the AABI (Spanish Association of Friends of the International Brigades) 80th 25/ SCOTLAND anniversary Jarama commemoration on 17/18 Memorial events February. – Dundee: The annual Dundee commemoration was held on 11 February 2017 at the memorial in Albert Gray and Willy Maley will give a talk entitled ‘No Square. The film ‘Voices from a Mountain’ was shown Pasarán! – Scots and the Spanish Civil War’ as part of at the Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre the the annual Festival of Politics. following day with a near capacity audience. Internet – Tarancón: on 17 February 2017, during the AABI’s The Facebook community ‘Scotland and the Spanish annual Jarama weekend, an estimated 140 UK and Civil War’, moderated by Mike Arnott and Kev Buyers, Irish visitors joined as many locals at the memorial in has 1,106 members. Kev’s website of Brigader photos Tarancón, dedicated to the 39 Scottish Brigaders who & biogs is at; fell at Jarama. http://internationalbrigadesinspain.weebly.com – Kirkcaldy: Fife trade unions and IBMT supporters held a commemorative event on 25 February 2017 at 26/ NORTH WEST the Kirkcaldy memorial to mark the 80th anniversary There were IBMT speakers or presence at the of the International Brigades, followed by a rally in following events: Lancashire Association of Trades the Adam Smith Theatre. Union Councils conference in Nelson, Greater – Motherwell: North Lanarkshire No Pasaran group Manchester Military History Society in Hyde, Unite organised the annual commemoration at the young trade unionists weekend school in Chorley, Motherwell memorial on 23 July 2017. Music and food Probus Club in Rochdale, Garth Prison, ASLEF followed at the Railway Tavern. northern regional dinner, anti-EDL demo in Bolton, – Glasgow: The annual commemoration at the La Doncaster Constituency Labour Party dinner, Wigan Pasionaria memorial was held on 9 September 2017, Museum, Wigan Art Festival. There were IBMT stalls organised by Hope not Hate (Glasgow) and Glasgow at the North West Anarchist Book Fair, ‘Dare Devil City Unison. Rides to Jarama’ performances in Manchester, Bolton Other events Socialist Club and Wigan Diggers’ Festival. – ‘The Life and Times of Aberdeen’s International Events organised or attended by North-West Brigaders’ was organised by the Morning Star IBMT members (usually with the North West banner) Scottish Readers’ group on 25 November 2016 in the included: annual re-dedication ceremony in Glasgow, Town House, with speakers Neil Cooney, Nina ILP re-dedication at the Working Class Movement Londragan and Tommy Campbell. The annual St Library in Salford, unveiling of the RMT banner in Andrews Day Anti Racism and Anti Fascism March and Manchester, unveiling of an International Brigade Rally on the next day also focused on the 80th memorial in Paris, ‘Five Things You Didn't Know About anniversary of the International Brigades. the Spanish Civil War’ in Manchester, Paul Robeson – Theatre group Wonder Fools held a reading of their event at People’s History Museum, re-dedication of play ‘549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War’ at the International Brigade memorial in Oldham, Prestonpans Labour Club on 5 January 2017. They will Manchester May Day, Blackstone Edge Chartist Rally, tour in 2018 in Prestonpans, St Andrews, Burnley May Day, 7th Hamburg Anti-Fascist Harbour Musselburgh and Glasgow (with other venues to be Tour, unveiling of the Oxford IBMT memorial, People's confirmed). Olympiad event in Barcelona and ‘From Manchester – On 9 March 2017 Fraser Raeburn gave a talk to a to Spain: A commemoration of the life of George Scottish History Seminar at Edinburgh University Brown’. There have been regular meetings of the entitled ‘An army of strangers? Scottish International Manchester International Brigade Memorial Group. Brigade volunteers and the importance of locality’. Events organised by local IBMT members included an – On 22 March 2017, the Montrose Review ran a front 80th anniversary trip to Jarama and the annual Jarama page article on the Basque children’s colony in the commemoration in Manchester Town Hall. town. An exhibition about the colony will run in Edinburgh and in Dundee Central Library from 28 27/ THANKS August to 9 September 2017. A commemorative The Executive Committee wishes once again to place concert in Montrose is set for October, with Na-mara on record its appreciation for the support given to the and Gallo Rojo. Trust over this past year by all members and affiliates, – Between 9 and 16 July 2017, Pablo Hernández, especially those who have made donations or who representing ARMH (Association for the Recovery of have participated in or helped organise IBMT Historical Memory) in Tarancón, visited the east of activities. The IBMT Executive Committee is also very Scotland and spoke at ceremonies at International grateful to all those individuals and unions in Cardiff Brigade memorials in Perth, Dundee and Kirkcaldy. He for hosting and organising our 2017 Annual General also visited Allan Craig Jnr in Inverness, who had Meeting. inaugurated the Tarancón International Brigade memorial in 2011. September 2017 – On 21 October 2017 at the Scottish Parliament, Dan